WhensDinner

Can't have it both ways. The issue isn't really that junk games exist, the issue is that the interface of the eShop doesn't give you the tools to find what you're actually looking for. I firmly believe that the only objectively correct way to curate a game store is to not curate it at all, the way that Steam does. Let it all ride, but give the customer tools that make releasing scam games not worthwhile. This includes a powerful search, a review system, and a refund window. It does not matter that "Fart Fart Boobie Fart: The Game" is on the store, if you can see it has a "Overwhelmingly Negative" review score, is from a self-published developer that you have never seen before, and you only found it because you sorted by lowest price and scrolled to the bottom.

Steam is absolutely awash in swill, but you don't have to deal with it because the store is structured well, with reviews, recommendations based on your play and purchases, and if you do get got and end up with a real stinker, you can just get a refund, so the junk game doesn't get rewarded once the jig is up.

The only reason anyone even talks about the junk on the eShop is because the eShop itself doesn't give you the tools to push it aside.

I really like the grip for the original Switch, though I do not like where they put the game card storage on this one. I'm not sure it needs game card storage at all, but if it did there's so much space on the back support bar they could have used instead of the literal exact place the tips of your fingers are going to rest.

This is a good effort, and a decently made product, but Dekudeals is already the absolute king of this space. Their waitlist feature is too good to give up. Plus they also track games across different platforms, so you can add a game to your list and be notified if it's on sale on any platform. I congratulate the effort, but I won't be using it.

IT'S MAHVEL BAYBEE.

I'm ready to read the mental gymnastics on why this isn't legit. The funnest part of these leaks has been people who are convinced the Switch 2 isn't just a Switch 2 and is going to be something wacky coming up with all kinds of weird reasons as to why the leaks are all wrong.

It's wild to me that we're wrapping up the Switch and it never really got any new features. Folders? The NSO applet? I guess you could count save data backup, but that's really it. It never even got new themes. The eShop never saw a single update. It's just as barebones as the day it launched, and just as slow.

I hope the Switch 2 has a good feature set at launch, because it's probably the feature set it'll sunset with.

@MrCarlos46 ...yes? That is certainly a true statement, I guess.

@PoeTheLizard You can spend plat points on physical goodies from the My Nintendo website. Like actual merchandise that they mail to you. They're very useful. I got a bunch of Christmas presents with mine this year.

It's all coming together.

I hate how physical games have been turned into limited edition baubles.

Rest in Power. I feel like Falcom doesn't really get the name recognition it deserves, at least in the west, but I love their games.

MegaMan Legends, please. Please. He needs to get off the moon. Legends fans have suffered enough. I'm begging. I'm so desperate that even a remaster would elate me.

Is it coming to a Nintendo system? NintendoLife is covering a lot of things that aren't Nintendo related. I guess the click goldrush of Game Awards announcements is just too much to pass up.

I think it looks good, but part of its appeal is admittedly its novelty, and that is wearing a bit thin. That said, there's really nothing wrong with a style existing and being used. If it's the right fit for the game, then use it, if it's not, then don't. I wouldn't turn away from a game because of it, but the newness has faded to the point I also won't check out a game because of it, as the striking nature of HD-2D is kind of gone, now.

It's fine, but no longer eye-catching.

Shame. I've been interested in this game for a while, but never got around to buying it on PC. I figured maybe the Switch version would be worth a grab on sale in the future, but I suppose not.

It's really funny to me how there have been leaks on leaks of the Switch 2, and they all look pretty much the same, and yet people are on here saying "nah, no way, grasping at straws". Bruh, what's it gonna take? Nintendo is going to unveil the thing, it's going to look exactly the same, and everyone is just going to carry on pretending we haven't known what it looks like for months? That they were all just lucky guesses?

I'm sure some will. If the Switch 2 is as popular as Switch 1, I think publishers are going to pursue it with zeal just like they did the Switch 1.

Very nice. I think games need more fun cross-promotion like this.

Folks. It's $25. It's honest about the amount of content it has. Why does every game need to "keep you coming back"? I feel like every other month there's a debate about how games are getting too expensive and we need more cheaper games that don't try to be forever games, then every time one comes along it gets an entire paragraph of ire about how it's not Elden Ring Racer that lasts 200 hours or whatever and gets a mediocre/10 score. There's no winning.

Switch unconfirmed. What a great article.

At this point I predict this game will come out, be front and center for one weekly news cycle, then never be spoken about again. Same as what happened to The Last Guardian.

@nessisonett Well, buckaroo, I ain't the one who writ the book on this here rodeo. I just play by the rules, same as everyone else. So don't be givin' me no lip 'bout it.

(This whole thing was a joke please don't kick me out this is like the only non-terrible Nintendo blog left.)

@nessisonett NintendoLife is part of Hookshot, which is part of IGN, which is part of Ziff Davis, which is an American company.

Sorry, pardner, but we spell color with no u in these here parts. Ye haw.

We'll not see his like again.

I've taken to using Deku Deals and just ignoring the actual eShop on the console. I browse for games using Deku Deals, I use the links there to purchase them, and if I have to activate a code I use the Nintendo website from a computer.

"We released a popular game on a popular system and it was popular. We couldn't have predicted this."

I swear publishers will try everything they possibly can before they pick up the easy W, and even then they act like it was a fluke.

Zero Build saved this game, for me. So much more fun when you can focus on the other players instead of building an entire castle every time someone shoots at you.

I don't think Sony/Xbox have any real shot at denting Nintendo's dominance in the handheld space. For Nintendo, the Switch is their one focus, there's no divide between a console and a handheld, their console is a handheld. If Sony tries to make a PSP/Vita style system it's going to be a separate thing. There's no shot at it playing PS5 Pro/PS6 games, because that's just not possible. So now their resources are split between PS5/6 games and Vita2 games, as are developers. It won't work, it didn't work with the Vita.

Xbox could potentially make a Steam Deck-esque system that can play games on the level of an Xbox Series S, but it's going to be expensive and again divide developer focus having to support another platform that is underpowered compared to whatever Xbox's current console is at the time. Xbox already doesn't really have the software to sell consoles, so there's little chance that an underpowered system from them is going to sell on the merits of its games.

Meanwhile, Nintendo cranks out system-selling software constantly and has all of their focus and backing behind their one horse that the public is already in love with.

There's just no storming this castle.

As a side note. I loved the PS Vita. It was everything the PSP should have been and more. It had amazing hardware, great features, felt great in the hand, it was an amazing system, and Sony let it die on the vine. I have no faith whatsoever that Sony can do it.

>LRG

Hard pass.

@Shrek_Realista The issues with them are pretty varied and wide-reaching. I would encourage you to look up one of several good deep-dives on them on Youtube. If you don't want to, the primary summation is that they treat games like baubles and do everything they can to crank up FOMO on top of having horrible customer service, costing too much, and being too slow.

@nocdaes Bro are you mental? The Switch is such a runaway success with "the mass market" that even if the Switch 2 was literally just the Switch 1 with a nicer, larger screen it would still sell like crazy. A more powerful Switch with new games that is familiar and can still play all of people's old games is the easiest W in the world. The only beef anyone has with the Switch is that it's old and underpowered.

If they do it'll be a small one to show off some indie or 3rd party games. It would be dumb to reveal Switch 2 when holiday shopping is in full swing and the thing you're revealing isn't available to purchase yet.

I feel bad for gamers in China that do things the right way. I'd non-stop pirate games too if this kind of thing was constantly being shovelled in my face for trying to do things above board. The chinese version of Steam has almost nothing on it, and the eShop was also very dire.

"If the title of a news article ends with a question mark, the answer is no."

Holds true.

For hardcore Stalker fans (like me) Clear Sky is considered the weakest of the original three by a pretty wide margin, but it's still a fun game. When you're ready to take a break from the more freeform first and third games, Clear Sky is a more action focused straightforward experience. As a Stalker superfan I'd still consider it a 8 out of 10 game, but compared to the other two it's lacking a lot of what really draws people to the franchise and this type of game in general.

Pretty predictable and intuitive results, honestly. The distribution of switch models lines up decently with the timespan they've been available with some noise for upgrades and people who bought switch lite for pure portable use. People who buy physical games do it for pretty intuitive reasons. The chief beef with the Switch at this stage is the objectively terrible horsepower this late in the gen. The poll is on NintendoLife, where you have to have an account set up to respond and comment, so naturally the people on NintendoLife are going to say they get their news from NintendoLife.

Still, it's good to see that the player base is more or less aligned in wanting a Switch, but more powerful. That's all I want, and I think for the very first time modern Nintendo is actually going to take the obvious path of just repeating what they did last gen, but with more horsepower. Still very likely much less than competing consoles, but enough to see a huge improvement over Switch.

Physical release sweet...

[Limited Run Games]

Nevermind.

@Not_Soos I mean, that's good and all, but I still don't want some rich fatcat or his government buying up huge stakes in entertainment companies.

Also understand that interviews like the one you mentioned are PR opportunities. It's a very common tactic to "sportswash" your image this way.

The no photos rule is strange. Perhaps it's a cultural thing.

Disappointing to learn there isn't more actual history on display along with the exhibits. If I'm going to a place like that I'm for sure going to be actually interested in reading more about the items that are on display, not just seeing the items themselves. My local aquarium as a whole passage on every single type of fish, snake, and turtle on display but Nintendo can't manage more than a surface-level description of some one-of-a-kind prototypes?

@Erigen

"Too expensive, too expensive."

"Mario Party."

[Turns around immediately.]

It's going to be horrible, and it's going to make a lot of money from kids begging their parents to go see it.

No real issue, honestly. The kids that go to see it are probably going to love it, the parents are going to have happy kids for an evening, and gaming websites are going to have funny articles with attention grabbing thumbnails the whole way through.

@LavenderShroud
While 30fps isn't exactly the devil, saying "but things were bad in the past, too" isn't a great way to justify it. It's perfectly reasonable to expect standards to rise. 30fps was fine back in the day because it was all we had, now we have a lot better, so seeing a game perform like an N64 game is a downer.

I somewhat doubt they'd let you pair a mouse via Bluetooth, or via USB, but hey, they could. It'd be fun even if you used the gyro in the system/controller, though.

At this point I think even Nintendo has to realize that doing something "new and different" isn't the play with Switch 2. They've finally managed to capture lighting in a bottle and all they have to do is release an updated, upgraded, and nicer Switch for them to continue into another generation of runaway success. A ton of people who don't normally buy and play a lot of games bought a Switch, but also actually continued to buy games for it, my mom included. If a newer, nicer Switch comes out that can play all of their old games it'll be a no-brainer for those people.

Shame. I was just thinking about how I wish gaming magazines, or even just magazines in general, were still a thing. That said I recognize the irony of saying that on what is essentially an online magazine that's free, releases new articles every day, and doesn't need to be printed and mailed.

As nice as magazines are, there just isn't really a place for them any more, at least in gaming. Even if news hits the day the print happens, it'll be old news before it makes it to your subscriber's mailbox.

@Not_Soos Yes, it had a dog-head controller that had a USB-C port on it. They discontinued it shortly after launch, though.

Nah. I'm not interested in a Switch that can't switch. I'm also not interested in a Switch with joycons you can't easily replace.

Metal Gear Solid 4. I'm a huge metal gear fan who has replayed all of the games so many times I can't count, but I played MGS 4 once. It's a great game, but it was such an emotional capstone to the series that I just don't want to ride that ride again. I have nothing but good things to say about it, but the one run I did through it was pure enjoyment. It was like a massive, playable movie that did everything right to cater to me as a long-time MGS fan, and when it was done I knew that I both loved it and wouldn't play through it again. One of my all-time favorites, but for me I won't go through it again.

@Chibi HookShotMediaTruth

Great Direct. There were some duds in it, but it's close to being all killer no filler. I'm really surprised to see so many high-profile Nintendo 1st party games at this stage in the Switch's life. With how long of a tail Nintendo games have it gives me hope that Switch 2 will feature backwards compatibility.